On 11 March 2015, the Department announced that Varian Medical Systems was the preferred supplier of proton beam therapy equipment for the new United Kingdom service on both sites. Evaluation of the bids included a thorough assessment of costs, technology and clinical effectiveness.

At full capacity, the estimated cost per patient receiving proton beam therapy in the United Kingdom is expected to be approximately £35,000.

The Full Business Case for The Christie in Manchester indicates that the cost of construction will be £135.03 million and the annual operating costs (at full capacity) to be up to £24 million per year.

The Full Business Case for the University College London Hospitals indicates that the cost of construction will be £138.6 million and the annual operating costs (at full capacity) to be up to £25.5 million per year.

The locations are as follows: the new proton beam therapy centre at The Christies, will be on the former Young Oncology site, Oak Road, Manchester, M20 3BA. The new proton beam therapy centre at University College London Hospitals will be on the former Rosenheim site on Grafton Way, London, WC1E 6DB.

The installation of proton beam therapy centres at The Christie and University College London Hospitals will enable us to treat more patients than ever before.

The High Level Expert Group published its report on structural reform of the European Banking Sector in October 2012. The Government welcomed the structural reform recommendations of the Group, which would require European banks to establish a ring-fence around its trading activities to separate it from its deposit bank. These proposals are compatible with the ring-fencing reforms which the Government is implementing through the Banking Reform Bill. The Government continues to engage with the European Commission in this important area. The European Commission issued its own consultation based on the Group’s findings earlier this year and will issue a summary of responses in due course.

I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

As the Government has explained in its written evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), there is no single definition of 'subsidy':

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmenvaud/writev/61/energy.pdf

The amount of market support available to levy-funded policies supporting low-carbon electricity investment, which includes policies supporting UK renewables, has been set by the Government at up to £7.6 billion (real 2011-12 prices) in 2020. Non-levy funded support must be provided from within agreed departmental spending limits.

The Government has made no payments to wind farms to compensate for inactivity.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)'s historical library collection was transferred to King’s College London in 2007 under the terms of a Trust Deed. A departmental minute laid before both Houses of Parliament noted the value of the collection at £4.5 million. Following the closure of the physical

library in 2008, some items were selected by the National Archives and then most of the remaining collection was also transferred to King’s College. The last few remaining items of the working library collection were offered to other institutions, or disposed of, The remainder of unwanted items were sold for £2,500.

Except for a few items retained by the National Archives, no other elements of the FCO's former Library reside within other Government institutions.

Upon taking up office in 2010, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), personally committed to undertaking work to address the consequences of breaking up the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) historic library. This has included re-opening the old Home Office library in the main building, opening the legal library and setting up a language library within the new language school which was opened in September 2013, and approving plans to establish a new diplomatic academy. Alongside the work to improve standards through diplomatic excellence and learning from history, these steps take us towards our goal of having the best diplomatic service in the world.

The FCO library spaces have now been restored. The books within them mainly comprise the historians' and legal directorate's working collections.

There are no plans to restore the other material to the FCO. The FCO is confident that all unique and valuable items were carefully handled, and that King's College London is proving to be an excellent custodian for its unique historical library collection. This collection is also accessible to staff from across Whitehall, via the information management department in the FCO.

Staff across Whitehall benefit from information services managed locally through departmental libraries. These services are co-ordinated through a Committee of Departmental Librarians, with reciprocal agreements in place to access each other's collections. Pre-posting reading for our diplomats is further complemented by relationships with other academic and public libraries.

The library at the FCO did not provide information to foreign governments in the settlement of boundary disputes, prior to its closure.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)'s historical library collection was transferred to King’s College London in 2007 under the terms of a Trust Deed. A departmental minute laid before both Houses of Parliament noted the value of the collection at £4.5 million. Following the closure of the physical

library in 2008, some items were selected by the National Archives and then most of the remaining collection was also transferred to King’s College. The last few remaining items of the working library collection were offered to other institutions, or disposed of, The remainder of unwanted items were sold for £2,500.

Except for a few items retained by the National Archives, no other elements of the FCO's former Library reside within other Government institutions.

Upon taking up office in 2010, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), personally committed to undertaking work to address the consequences of breaking up the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) historic library. This has included re-opening the old Home Office library in the main building, opening the legal library and setting up a language library within the new language school which was opened in September 2013, and approving plans to establish a new diplomatic academy. Alongside the work to improve standards through diplomatic excellence and learning from history, these steps take us towards our goal of having the best diplomatic service in the world.

The FCO library spaces have now been restored. The books within them mainly comprise the historians' and legal directorate's working collections.

There are no plans to restore the other material to the FCO. The FCO is confident that all unique and valuable items were carefully handled, and that King's College London is proving to be an excellent custodian for its unique historical library collection. This collection is also accessible to staff from across Whitehall, via the information management department in the FCO.

Staff across Whitehall benefit from information services managed locally through departmental libraries. These services are co-ordinated through a Committee of Departmental Librarians, with reciprocal agreements in place to access each other's collections. Pre-posting reading for our diplomats is further complemented by relationships with other academic and public libraries.

The library at the FCO did not provide information to foreign governments in the settlement of boundary disputes, prior to its closure.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)'s historical library collection was transferred to King’s College London in 2007 under the terms of a Trust Deed. A departmental minute laid before both Houses of Parliament noted the value of the collection at £4.5 million. Following the closure of the physical

library in 2008, some items were selected by the National Archives and then most of the remaining collection was also transferred to King’s College. The last few remaining items of the working library collection were offered to other institutions, or disposed of, The remainder of unwanted items were sold for £2,500.

Except for a few items retained by the National Archives, no other elements of the FCO's former Library reside within other Government institutions.

Upon taking up office in 2010, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), personally committed to undertaking work to address the consequences of breaking up the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) historic library. This has included re-opening the old Home Office library in the main building, opening the legal library and setting up a language library within the new language school which was opened in September 2013, and approving plans to establish a new diplomatic academy. Alongside the work to improve standards through diplomatic excellence and learning from history, these steps take us towards our goal of having the best diplomatic service in the world.

The FCO library spaces have now been restored. The books within them mainly comprise the historians' and legal directorate's working collections.

There are no plans to restore the other material to the FCO. The FCO is confident that all unique and valuable items were carefully handled, and that King's College London is proving to be an excellent custodian for its unique historical library collection. This collection is also accessible to staff from across Whitehall, via the information management department in the FCO.

Staff across Whitehall benefit from information services managed locally through departmental libraries. These services are co-ordinated through a Committee of Departmental Librarians, with reciprocal agreements in place to access each other's collections. Pre-posting reading for our diplomats is further complemented by relationships with other academic and public libraries.

The library at the FCO did not provide information to foreign governments in the settlement of boundary disputes, prior to its closure.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)'s historical library collection was transferred to King’s College London in 2007 under the terms of a Trust Deed. A departmental minute laid before both Houses of Parliament noted the value of the collection at £4.5 million. Following the closure of the physical

library in 2008, some items were selected by the National Archives and then most of the remaining collection was also transferred to King’s College. The last few remaining items of the working library collection were offered to other institutions, or disposed of, The remainder of unwanted items were sold for £2,500.

Except for a few items retained by the National Archives, no other elements of the FCO's former Library reside within other Government institutions.

Upon taking up office in 2010, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), personally committed to undertaking work to address the consequences of breaking up the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) historic library. This has included re-opening the old Home Office library in the main building, opening the legal library and setting up a language library within the new language school which was opened in September 2013, and approving plans to establish a new diplomatic academy. Alongside the work to improve standards through diplomatic excellence and learning from history, these steps take us towards our goal of having the best diplomatic service in the world.

The FCO library spaces have now been restored. The books within them mainly comprise the historians' and legal directorate's working collections.

There are no plans to restore the other material to the FCO. The FCO is confident that all unique and valuable items were carefully handled, and that King's College London is proving to be an excellent custodian for its unique historical library collection. This collection is also accessible to staff from across Whitehall, via the information management department in the FCO.

Staff across Whitehall benefit from information services managed locally through departmental libraries. These services are co-ordinated through a Committee of Departmental Librarians, with reciprocal agreements in place to access each other's collections. Pre-posting reading for our diplomats is further complemented by relationships with other academic and public libraries.

The library at the FCO did not provide information to foreign governments in the settlement of boundary disputes, prior to its closure.

I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

The Department does not pay grants to landowners for allowing the siting of wind turbines.

I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

The following grants were paid to wind turbine manufacturers between 2009 and 2012. This included funding directly delivered by DECC through the Environmental Transformation Fund, and delivered jointly with BIS through the Low Carbon Investment Fund.

DECC has not estimated the cross-lifetime consumer end cost for each mode of renewable energy. However, DECC does publish levelised costs estimates of various generation technologies on the DECC website. The levelised cost of electricity generation for a particular technology is the ratio of the total costs of a generic plant to the total amount of electricity expected to be generated over the plant's lifetime (per megawatt hour).

Levelised costs include pre-development costs, capex and infrastructure costs, operating costs, connection costs and where appropriate carbon and fuel costs. Levelised cost estimates for different types of electricity generation are highly sensitive to the assumptions used for capital costs, fuel and EU ETS allowance prices, operating costs, load factor, discount rate and other drivers and this means that there is uncertainty around these estimates. The latest published figures are available:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/decc-electricity-generation-costs-2013

It should be noted that levelised cost estimates are intended to represent the average cost of building a plant and do directly reflect the impacts on the bills of energy consumers.

In addition to levelised costs, DECC publishes estimates of the impacts of policies on energy prices and bills. The latest publication estimates that support for renewable electricity generation through the Renewables Obligation accounts for around 2% (or £30, in real 2012 prices) of the household dual fuel energy bill:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/172923/130326_Price_and_Bill_ Impacts_Report_Final

The Department does not hold this information.

DECC has published levelised costs estimates of various generation technologies on the DECC website since 2010. The levelised cost of a particular generation technology is the ratio of the total costs of a generic plant to the total amount of electricity expected to be generated over the plant's lifetime (per megawatt hour). Levelised costs include pre-development costs, capex and infrastructure costs, operating costs, connection costs and carbon and fuel costs. Installation costs, along with other costs form part of the capital costs of a project.

Levelised costs do not include revenues or support payments. The estimates include costs for projects starting now and in the future. All documents relating to electricity generation costs are available on the DECC website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-energy-climate-change/series/energy-generation-cost-projections

Table 2 of this report shows central estimates of the levelised costs of various technologies for projects starting in 2013 using a 10% discount rate, broken down into components parts. These are copied here for onshore wind and offshore wind Rounds 2 and 3:

Levelised cost estimates for different types of electricity generation are highly sensitive to the assumptions used for capital costs, fuel and EU ETS allowance prices, operating costs, load factor, discount rate and other drivers and this means that there is significant uncertainty around these estimates.

It is appropriate to consider a range of cost estimates as pipeline projects show a large range around these central values.

Table 3 of this report shows a range for the levelised costs of various technologies for projects starting in 20.13 using a 10% discount rate. Those representing high and low capital estimates for onshore wind and offshore wind Rounds 2 and 3 are copied here:

I attended the Nobel Prize Ceremony on 10 December 2012 on behalf of the UK Government. The costs of this trip have already been published as part of the regularly quarterly release of information about the Deputy Prime Minister's overseas travel, available at the following link:

http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-with-external-organisations-october-to-december-2012